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Nanny state of affairs

Welcome to Side View — a curated guide to new and overlooked content on politics, policy, and public affairs. This week: George HW Bush's highs and lows, underwhelmed with wellness, another conservative party with a women problem, and who the hell watches Victoria's Secret shows?

BAD UNDERWEAR AND SIX CHIPS AT A TIME

Corporate “wellness” programs are a nice distillation of our rotten dystopia of surveillance, demonstrating the nanny state mentality — bought into by so many self-described progressives — that citizens have a duty to maximise their economic productivity, while handing corporations ever greater power over us.